I'm writing a library and toolset for the manipulation of a software's data files.
The library and toolset are written in Python.
As I build the library, I start to rely on 3rd party libraries that ...

There are good annotated vocabulary in {a,i,my}spell dictionaries, giving the lexical class et all.
I'm writing a program that needs a large vocabulary, but with a reduced scope, so I don't need all ...

I am making a game using LWJGL and this is their license. What I don't understand is what must I do?
I plan on making a game and distributing it, not the source code just the .jar file and maybe sell ...

My company has a client-side web application that we would like to open-source. We don't want to impose any restrictions on usage, except that any modifications and derivative works should contain a ...

I am currently studding OpengGL with OpenGL Supebible 5th edition. I've found interested for me some C++ code that is distributed with the book (see also on google code). That code is under New BSD ...

This is the first time I have dealt with licensing issues so I am sorry if I am making any stupid assumptions. My issue is that I have written a program in Python that uses PyQT for the GUI and also ...

I'm writing code that I would like to release under the MIT License. It uses the public API of a library licensed under the BSD 3-clause license. I am not redistributing the library with the source ...

I have a few FOSS projects that I want to release under the BSD license, since I only wish to maintain the intellectual property of the code, that others will know I've been writing it.
I suppose all ...

If I include an open source library in my project that is licensed under the MIT license, but contains BSD-licensed code that requires attribution (correctly attributed inside the project), is it my ...

I'm making a drawing program as my first open-source program merely to get a taste of the open-source community. To make said program, I am using Python 2.7. I'm using the following modules:
EasyGUI ...

I'm using a BSD-2 Licence code in my project and with author permission, I modify the code. Now, I am using this code in my project. I know, I should mention Author's name and copyright information. ...

(Let me edit this question to try to better get across what I am asking.)
I don't understand what a license is and how I may "use" it. From the little that I do understand, there are two situations:
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I have forked a project that was released under the GPL and made substantial modifications, however there are still some parts and general ideas that are the same as upstream.
Due to user interest I ...

I am working on open source project, that uses the source code from FlatAssembler project, which uses following license, based on BSD 2-clause with one additional clause added at the end of the text.
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I want to use the ICSOpenVpn project source code in my commercial application.
If we see the ICSOpenVpn project, it states that its license is New BSD but the libopenvpn.so library it uses is under ...

Assume I have a library A which is licensed under a two-clause Free BSD style license. Library A optionally depends on library B (the availability of the dependency is configured at build-time), which ...

Is it acceptable to distribute unmodified BSD-licensed software (pyglet) with GPL-licensed software I created? The BSD allows for sale of modified software, I know, but does it allow re-licensing of ...

I am writing code that uses one library with GPL (not LGPL) license, and one with the 3-clause BSD license. Since I link to GPL-licensed library, my code will need to be GPL as well. How should I, in ...